Prince William is “already changing the way things are done by the monarchy” ahead of a future role as the next prince of Wales, according to a royal commentator. The Duke of Cambridge marked his 40th birthday Tuesday, months after an ill-fated tour of Jamaica, Belize and the Bahamas. Among public relations missteps, William and Kate Middleton were photographed being driven while standing

Hong Kong’s Jumbo Floating Restaurant—a popular tourist attraction that welcomed celebrities and politicians including Tom Cruise and Queen Elizabeth II—capsized in the South China Sea on Sunday a week after leaving the city for an unannounced destination, the restaurant’s owner said. Aberdeen Restaurant Enterprises, the restaurant’s parent company, said in a statement the floating restaurant encountered poor conditions after passing

Rome, the eternal city, has been invaded, conquered and pillaged countless times since its founding nearly 2,800 years ago. Each attack has left scars throughout the city, from the ruins of the Roman Forum to the cavern of the Circus Maximus where chariots once raced. Modern degradation has also left citizens angry, fed up with what often feels like complacency in what is

The world’s oldest tree may have been standing for centuries when the first boulders were erected at Stonehenge, new research suggests. The ancient giant, an alerce (Fitzroya cupressoides) known as the “Gran Abuelo” (or great grandfather in Spanish) that towers over a ravine in the Chilean Andes, may be roughly 5,400 years old, a new computer model suggests. If that date can

In August 1939, as he was finalizing plans for the invasion of Poland, Adolf Hitler was also engaged in negotiations with Pope Pius XII so delicate that not even the German ambassador to the Holy See knew about them. The existence of these talks was a secret the Vatican was eager to maintain long after Pius XII’s death—as it did